After Anzick: Reconciling New Genomic Data and Models with the Archaeological Evidence for Peopling of the Americas
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)
The past two years have witnessed the publication of a series of ancient genomes that illuminate the peopling of the Americas: the Anzick infant, the Malt’a boy, and Kennewick Man. Along with similar data from later Holocene skeletal samples and extant Native American populations, these genomes show that a single small but diverse founder group, ancestral to all Native populations south of the Arctic, left Siberia after 23,000 cal BP and crossed Beringia about 15,000 cal BP. Is it possible to reconcile the new genomic data with putative evidence of pre-Clovis or non-Clovis archaeological cultures south of the ice sheets before 14,500 cal BP? Can archaeological and genomic data be unified into a consilient model of the peopling process?
Other Keywords
Paleoindian •
Beringia •
bioarchaeology •
Migration •
Paleoenvironmental Change •
Modeling •
Colonization •
Peopling Of The New World •
Peopling Of The Americas •
Ice Age
Geographic Keywords
North America - Plains •
South America •
Arctic •
North America - NW Coast/Alaska •
North America-Canada •
North America - Mid-Atlantic •
North American - Basin Plateau
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-11 of 11)
- Documents (11)
- The Anzick Genome Proves Clovis Is First, After All (2016)
- Are we looking to discover the first Americans or the first successful Americans? (2016)
- Beringia is not the sole source of people in the New World (2016)
- Clovis Origins: A Global Perspective (2016)
- Colonization of Northern North America: a view from Eastern Beringia (2016)
- Continental Roots and Coastal Routes? Merging Archaeological, Bio-Geographic and Genomic Evidence of the Peopling of the Americas (2016)
- The First Americans South of the Continental Ice Sheets–Correlating the Late Pleistocene Archaeological and Genetic Records (2016)
- Human and Animal Dispersal in Beringia: Reconciling the Genetic and Archaeological Records (2016)
- Making Sense of Kennewick Man (2016)
- Nunataks and Valley Glaciers: Over the Mountains and Through the Ice (2016)
- The old age of mitochondrial linage D1g from the southern cone of South America supports the early entry of the first migrants (2016)